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The additional stuff you have done puts you ahead, however you still have to do the exams Exams are there to show that you have the knowledge needed. Without examination there is no proof. Plus, i am sure you will have a number of exemptions which should make life easier

Yeah university. We just all need to be positive

I'm doing just accounting because i am not 100% keen on finance, although it probably would of been better if i had done it...And i am at the end of my first year undergraduate

So my exams were a disaster. No fails, mind you, but I may as well have considering they count for my final degree grade. However, I think I can salvage a 2:1 if I do very very well next year. So... dissertation topics. My uni are being less than helpful with every and all aspects of this. We haven't been appointed supervisors, dates, draft dates, anything at all.

If you don't mind sharing, what are some of the dissertation topics you all have done in the accounting area, or any good one's that you may have read? I'd like to get an early start on this to try and salvage my grade.

Anyone completed a straight accounting degree? if so i need your help

Yes I have, please ask away

Anyone completed a straight accounting degree? if so i need your help

I have

Advances in accounting could be based around any number of things, accounting is constantly changing

Your uni may have set parameters about what you can write about, or set topics. Ours gave us free rein and gave us appropriate supervisors.

How to get a good grade is a VERY difficult question to answer. It depends on your overall aptitude for the subject you have chosen (e.g. I'm awful at tax - if I had done that I'd've failed miserably!), how much effort you're prepared to put into it, time management skills, and what your uni are looking for. If they are looking for a glorified literature review it will be fairly easy, but new research is much harder.

really appreciate the advice btw, what was ur diss. based on, and what grade did you get? if you dont mind me asking.

Mine was an odd one - looking back I shouldn't have chosen it! I did a comparison of director's reports and future performance. It involved a lot of analysis of the wording. I got fifty-something I think.

My current dissertation is based on SOX law.

thanks.

from your own experience how difficult was the final year of an accounting degree, if you was to rate from 1 to 10 (10 being extremly difficult vise versa). and which module did you find the most difficult. our third year modules are as follows: Financial Management, Taxation, Advances in Accounting and Auditing, i dont know if you had exactly the same.

Due to various medical and other factors, my university experience has been very different to that of most people, so I wouldn't say they were comparable.

If you only have four modules I imagine each module is going to be a bit more complex - we had Business Strategy (the only optional module), Corporate Finance (half module), Financial Management, International Corporate Reporting, Performance Management and Advanced Study for Accounting & Finance (dissertation) and an Add+vantage module (a weird uni initiative - half module).

I honestly think it is impossible to compare one persons experience with another, especially in different universities. I have studied Audit and quite liked it (hence my MSc dissertation topic), while others think it is dull as hell. I found Financial Management OK, but I did need to work on it more than my other modules. Like I said, it depends what you're good at.

I will be studying at Exeter Accounting and Finance from Oct 2011 plus industrial experience in the third year. Any suggestions,opinions?
In terms of syllabus how much "pure" math have you got/had on course?
By pure math I meant equations etc. I'm just wondering what level of math I can expect.

Well, I'm studying Accounting on its own, and tbh there is not much pure maths involved. In my Accounting degree, many of the modules are not even based on numbers, i.e. (marketing, business management, coporate law, personal development) etc. but there are two modules in particular that can be considered to involve pure maths i.e. Financial Management and Quantitative Methods. As for the remaining modules that involve numbers, the amount of knowledge you need in terms of maths are simple multiplication, subtraction, division etc. but then again, i can't help you in the 'Finance' aspect of the course. Note, course content varies from one uni to another

hope this helps